Due to the continuing WGA strike, the Golden Globes look like they might - might - get the ax. (For all of you book-reading intelligentsia who claim to have TV sets only so that your can watch your Netflix DVDs of The Sopranos and The Wire, you can read more about the strike here.) While not necessarily Bay Area-related, this deeply affects all of us who look at awards season at something holy and......

Update: Wow, that was lightning quick! The account has been suspended... and we just posted this minutes ago! Still, for shame, bayareatailgater. Don't you know that the only time this kind of thing is ever appropriate is when it's done in a men's locker room? Jerk. First off, we feel a tad icky for the following post. On one hand, we're playing into his game of profiting of his abuse of women. (For argument's......

The SF Public Library's holding a good old-fashioned photo drive! One day only! Today! They're looking to add to their Historical Photograph Collection, and they need your help -- but heterosexuals need not apply. Ha ha, just kidding, heterosexuals can help too! But seriously, they don't want pictures of straight people. The "Shades of LGBTQI" project is looking for donations from the community; they want photographs -- physical or digital -- that have something......

--CounterPULSE is hosting Paint Out!, a breast cancer fundraiser with comedians, slam poetry, and women getting their chests painted ($50 mininum donation to get painted). 3:30-7:30, $25, 1310 Mission St. (x 9th). --It's the last day of the Queer Women of Color Film Fest at the Brava Theater (2781 24th St., x York). Today's program: Short documentary showcase at 3 p.m. and love stories at 7 p.m. Free. --Bzzzzzzzz -- it's also the last......

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission is all over the problem of keeping only confident, competent senior drivers on the road. It's unveiled a new video to educate both seniors and those with seniors in their lives on the risks associated with driving while aging. It's introduced by former State Senator Quentin Kopp -- himself a senior -- who, in a bold performance admits that he, too, finds himself driving slower on the freeway. ...

The Bay Area is home to many intriguing small businesses. Still, color us surprised that we've found in Juno Baby a local purveyor of high-quality children's educational products that manages to encapsulate what we like best in a company. ...

For a while, we could not write a post about modern music without quoting the influence of Igor Stravinsky. Eve, then our dear editor, even made fun of us. Tonight, we will be vindicated. Not to ruin the suspense, but today’s episode of Keeping Score, the SF Symphony award winning behind-the-scene program, will highlight Stravinsky as a revolutionary. If MTT says so, we can keep mentioning Igor every time we want, he must have been influential. ...

While the name of this column is "SFist Reads", we have to ask: has anyone used the SFPL's online reserve system to reserve DVDs? We're just not as Netflixy as we used to be, and we're starting to wonder if the library might be a good substitute. Let us know your experiences in the comments! SFist Eve just finished Max Barry's novel Company, a brilliantly angry distillation of the workplace follies mocked by Dilbert......

We had such fun at last year's Reel San Francisco film series at the Balboa Theater, their series of movies set in and/or made right here in San Francisco (not Vancouver masquerading as such). The second annual series begins this Sunday and runs until Thursday, April 27. Sure, we've seen a lot of these movies before, but this is our chance to see studio archive prints of these classics in a big-screen theatre setting.......

In the past month we managed to catch up on two seasons of "Battlestar Galctica" (yes, we listened to our dear readers and got good and hooked) including the season finale, and now it's all over and we have to wait until OCTOBER for new episodes. Sheesh. Maybe we should have savored those DVDs instead of devoring them like the gluttons we are. Now what? Is "Lost" even on anymore? (OK. It's on this......

This week's comics, courtesy of Isotope, involve a boy motivated by his love for God, a man motivated by a threat to his wife, and a group of kids motivated by sex. Yep, God, violence, and sex -- honestly, what other reasons are there for doing anything? Let's start with Steven T. Seagle and Becky Cloonan's "American Virgin," because that was our favorite. Adam's a charismatic college kid on a mission from God: to......

SFist has a great December planned for all our readers, regardless of their respective naughty or niceness. Check this out: First, you'll wanna come see us pretty regularly, because we'll be giving away fabulous prizes every stinkin' day of December. That's right, 31 days of free stuff from SFist! Some of our contests will have long leads, some of them short, so check back early, and often! Enter our most recent contests here. What......

Not only did we see local director Alice Wu's fantastic film Saving Face, but we got to meether and later interview her. We even gave away passes to see the movie when it played in the Bay Area, that's how much we like it! Now the circle is completed, as we have some DVDs of the film to give away to a few lucky winners. Besides the film, the DVD features director's commentary, deleted......

Hey, no one told us Hothead Supervisor Chris Daly was going to be on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night! About O'Reilly, of course. We're so bummed we missed this! (Usual Suspects, will you be selling DVDs like you did with Ammiano on the Daily Show?) Transcript is here, but here's the highlights:

John Vanderslice. Helllooooo...over here...brought to you by SFist. Oh, wait, we don't need to act cool, we've got plenty of readers (thanks for asking). We love them because they love to argue over breasticles! Not only do we bring it with the 'get' local interviews, we bring you news you can use. Please. For everyone's sake. We'd like to think that BarCamp was like a little Burning Man if, um, it was in downtown......

SFist interviews artist Niffer Desmond ...

Okay, we're a little late to the party on this one (what? We thought your party started at 9, not 7! Our bad!) -- but our new favorite TV channel's got to be the C-SPAN of San Francisco politics, SFGTV Channel 26. Yes, we know, you can download specific meetings to watch on your computer, or check out the DVDs of particular meetings from the library -- but what we're totally loving about Channel 26 is your total lack of control about what shows up! Where else could we totally just randomly turn on the TV and see..... Gavin Newsom joking with reporters...? ....Tom Ammiano telling the Board of Supes that "I've been out for years"....? ...or Chris Daly shouting out, "ONE COUNTRY, INDIVISIBLE" over everyone else's "under God" during the Pledge of Allegiance? It's like old-school MTV, only with Sean Elsbernd (and no "wubba wubba wubba"). Day or night, the videotapes of justice whir on -- whether Chris Daly's boredly twiddling his pen, or Gerardo Sandoval's running into a meeting right after he's marked "absent" on the roll call, or SFist Jackson pleading to get us a press pass -- it's awesome. Hey, any chance SFGTV could start airing Animal Care and Control dog hearings too? ...

SFist can’t remember whom the comedian or writer was, but we recently read something by someone about the nature of geekdom. What they were wondering is why if somebody spends endless amounts of time, say, debating the ins and outs of Star Wars, watching the DVDs, going on message boards, and camping out before movies, they are somehow total geek losers, their masculinity completely in question. If, however, they spend absurd amounts of time debating the ins and outs of NFL draft picks and studying the draft and an entire weekend doing nothing but watching the draft, they are considered not geeks or losers, but the very height of manly man. This despite the fact that Star Wars has way more explosions and cool-ass space ships. What we are getting at is that tomorrow is the NFL Draft Day and SFist has long felt that the NFL Draft is one of the most annoyingly over hyped, over analyzed sports event of the year. Heck, it even has a logo and it’s own coporate sponsor. Life is way too short to spend idle amounts of time contemplating the draft. Especially when we have a fantasy baseball team we have to take care of....

SFist Rain makes a good point today when she reminds us that our friends at the San Francisco Public Library have more to offer us than just the printed word. You can also check out or reserve CDs, DVDs, audiobooks, and VHS tapes (for the unfrozen cavemen lawyers among us) for those times when reading isn't your first choice. Needless to say, you can also find these types of items at our fine local......

SFist enjoys the who big-ass spectacle that is the Oscars, but we have to admit that we've always been really bad at seeing the nominated movies. They all just look so, we don't know, educational or something! Assuming you're not quite as dumb or lazy as we are, perhaps you've seen all the nominated films already. But if you haven't, SFist has you covered. Many of the nominated films are still in theaters, so......

Where we're from, we have a fine and vibrant Chinatown. Not huge, but you can certainly get anything there that you can get here (well, except in the produce department). Still, we drop by Chinatown every Christmas to pick up the kind of trinkets, doodads and gewgaws that you can get for less than five bucks and hand out to that friend you run into from high school that you totally forgot to get a......

Speaking of yule logs, did you know that you can order the Yule Log on DVD? Isn’t that all kinds of awesome? We would make jokes about all the extras that come with it- director commentary, alternate tracks, etc.- but somebody already beat us to it. The yule log DVD is 90 minutes long and features your choice of two different fireplaces that are looped to play continuously. What more could you want for......

It maybe the start of the Festival of Lights, but it’s all grittiness here at This Week in DVDs as we got amnesiac spies being chased by bad guys, Columbian drug runners being chased by DEA agents, and Vince Vaughn being chased by dodge balls. Want more? How about a DVD two pack of Cannonball Run and Lightning Jack? Yep, it's for all those people who wouldn’t buy either until they were released together.......

So yeah, there's a bunch of movies out this week, but like last week's This Week in DVDs, the movies aren't really the important thing. Sure, we love Harry Potter, but this is also the week in which the first three seasons of "Seinfeld" are being released. Is there anything else that matters? Would you rather watch Tom Hanks play an immigrant "discovering" America while stuck in an airport terminal or George Costanza tell someone......

Although most people think of DVDs in terms of movies, this week in This Week in DVDs we're primarily going to feature TV shows. And it's not necessarily because this week features only one noteworthy flick (Elf) but because we have a sneaking suspicion that maybe while the big Hollywood flicks make the money, it's the DVDs of TV shows that makes up the bread and butter. After all, there is something a little obsessive......

Last week in This Week in DVDs we were taken to task for not mentioning the release of the 4-DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2, something for which we humbly apologize. What doesn't call for the owning of a DVD player more than having every single great Warner Bros. cartoon available to watch 24/7? Is anyone going to say that about this week's "big" release, The Stepford Wives? We think not. So in......

Hey, did you notice that banner up there? The one with the humorous witticisms (thank you, we'll be here all week) and pictures of merchandise? That banner is to notify you that our Cafepress store is officially open for business, and there's no better way to pay your hard earned money in order to advertise for us. So what are you waiting for -- buy some SFist brand schwag! Wow, what a crazy week,......

While last week was a veritable snooze in terms of new DVD releases, this week is a DVD potpourri. So much so that it's hard to cover them all. Suffice it to say, any week that features Shrek, Jeff Spicoli, Ali G., Hello Kitty, and James T. Kirk is a pretty good week. And if that's not good enough, this week also features DVD releases of the Three's Company- the Third Season and Too Close......

SFist worked our butts off to bring you the latest and greatest in our election coverage - okay, we don't have a lot of pull yet, but we're pretty sure at least one of the candidates we interviewed is going to get a paying job thanks to you voters, in spite of the fact that they spoke to us. 1115, who've busied themselves with covering the national election, were also nice enough to chat.......

SFist contributor and virtual TV pundit Rain Jokinen offers her Bay-area-centric TV picks of the week For some people, Halloween is a great time to live in San Francisco. It's not a holiday that goes unnoticed, and entertainment is virtually guaranteed. For others, the traffic, the inability to get a cab, and the people (The people! THE PEOPLE!) is enough to drive a person indoors for the entire weekend. If that's the case for you,......